{"id":6,"date":"2024-08-16T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:16:53","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Okanagan Shuswap Regional STEM Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwest-cwse.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-512 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/WWEST-Logo-solo-300x98.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/WWEST-Logo-solo-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/WWEST-Logo-solo-1024x336.png 1024w, https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/WWEST-Logo-solo-768x252.png 768w, https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/WWEST-Logo-solo.png 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-501 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/OSSTEM-Fair-suggested-logo-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/OSSTEM-Fair-suggested-logo-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/OSSTEM-Fair-suggested-logo-768x705.png 768w, https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/OSSTEM-Fair-suggested-logo.png 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">In collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwest-cwse.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWEST<\/a>, <br \/>at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, <br \/>we are excited to host our first Regional STEM Fair<br \/>on March 10, 2026<\/h3>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Congratulations to all STEM Fair Participants!<br \/>Well done to all 45 Projects and 75 students that participated.<br \/>Awards are posted on Awards tab<br \/><br \/>Thank you to all volunteers, sponsors, and judges to making the first year so successful!<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>The Okanagan Shuswap Regaion STEM Fair is open to students from grades 3-12, attending public schools, FNSA affiliated schools, Independent Schools, and home-schools, living within the region\u2019s communities that correspond to School Districts 19, 22, 23, 53, 67, and 83.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Science\/Technology fairs are a chance for students to work on a project related to some aspect of science, typically an experiment, innovation or study. The students\u2019 work is presented at a science fair and the students are evaluated on their scientific thought, originality, understanding, and the exhibit itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The best projects in each category are given awards and the best projects in the fair will move on to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cwsf-espc.ca\">Canada-Wide Science Fair<\/a>, all expenses paid. CWSF 2026 will be held in Edmonton from May 23rd to 30th, 2026.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Volunteering and Judging:<\/strong>\u00a0 <br \/>If you would like to support the STEM Fair as a volunteer or a judge for projects, please use <a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_eJ6LmGt6DxgkgCy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this link<\/a> provided to sign up to judge (please sign up by march 6, 2026)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Sponsorship:<\/strong>\u00a0 <br \/>If you or your organization would like to financially support\/sponsor the STEM Fair, please use the Contact Tab at the top to reach out!\u00a0 We have different levels of sponsorship available for this year and future fairs!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with WWEST, at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, we are excited to host our first Regional STEM Fairon March 10, 2026 Congratulations to all STEM Fair Participants!Well done to all 45 Projects and 75 students that participated.Awards are posted on Awards tab Thank you to all volunteers, sponsors, and judges to making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/okanagan-shuswap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}